May 4, 2020, 1:15 pm
Charles R Hobbs Jr. is the first Miami-Dade jail inmate to die from the virus. He was in jail awaiting trial after being arrested for failure to register as a sex offender. The underlying conviction for which he was registered was from 1998. He committed no other sexual offenses in the more than 20 years since.
According to his failure to register case docket, he was indigent and could not afford the $20,000 Bond. He had been sitting in Jail since January.
According to his underlying conviction for the crime that took place in 1997 (before the registry even existed), he was given a withhold adjudication and 5 years probation.
A failure to register for an offense that took place more than 20 years ago and for which he didn’t even receive jail time should not have resulted in the death penalty for Mr. Hobbs. And they say registration is not punishment!
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